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Cheers to Fiona: Cincinnati brewing company makes hippo beer

The beer celebrates the city's obsession with the little hippo, while also raising money for the zoo

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Updated: 9:59 AM CDT May 26, 2017

Cheers to Fiona: Cincinnati brewing company makes hippo beer

The beer celebrates the city's obsession with the little hippo, while also raising money for the zoo

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Cheers to Fiona: Cincinnati brewing company makes hippo beer

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CINCINNATI —

Listermann Brewing Co. has partnered with the Cincinnati Zoo to make a beer in honor of Cincinnati’s hippo heartthrob.

“Team Fiona” is a New England style IPA, and will be available for tasting June 10. Twenty-five percent of the beer’s proceeds will benefit the Cincinnati Zoo and Fiona’s care.

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The popular hippo was born six weeks premature at the Cincinnati Zoo on Jan. 4. She weighed 29 pounds at her birth. The average birth weight for a hippo is between 55 and 100 pounds. Four months later, following around-the-clock care, Fiona now weighs 254 pounds.

The new beer celebrates Cincinnati’s obsession with the little hippo while also raising money for the zoo.

“I actually thought the idea of a Team Fiona beer was a joke at first, but after hearing about all the Fiona fans at Listermann's, I knew we had something brewing,” said vice president of marketing and communications, Chad Yelton.

Members of Fiona’s care team were invited to participate in the brewing process. Some showed up to pour grain into the mash, take grain out, add hops and learn about different styles of beer.

Starting June 12, 4-packs will be sold in four Kroger locations – Oakley, Hyde Park, Anderson and Harper’s Point, two Jungle Jim’s stores and Cappies in Loveland.